Improvement in cigar-fillings



s. soHoLrmLn. GIGAR FILLING.

110. 111,089. Patented Jan. 17, 1871.v

cada eine tant entre Letters Patent No. 111,089, dated January 17, 1871 antedated January 7, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN ClGA'R-FILLINGS.

The Schedule referred to ln these Letters Patent and making part of the salue.

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, Soorwrns SoHoLFrELD, of Provi'clence,.in thecounty of Providence and State of Rhode Islzmd, 'have invented an Improvement in- Cigar-Fillels or Bunches; anddo hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description,reference being had' to, the accompanying drawing making a part of .this specification.v

The nature of mynvention consists in tapering cigar-n'llers or bunches, 4 n y removing aniternal `section of wedge, or other suitable form, thusgproducing a forked end, which, when` pressed together, will close up to the size desired. To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willjproceed to describe it more fully by first observing thatcigar-iillers or bunches of uuiform size from end to end'maybe readily cut out by proper machinery, but cannot in that form be made up into a satisfactory cigar,l on account of the superfluous stock atthe ends, which -willbeeome pressed down hard when forming thetuck and point in ary'rapping-machine.

1n order to overcome this diliiculty it has been the practice to feed lthe tobacco to the filler-machine so 'that,`\vhile it enters in a compact mass at the point corresponding to themiddle part of the cigar, it may be much thinner at the ends, so that when cut off by a knife the proper quanti-ty may be found at each of the several points in the cigar.

This mode of arranging the fillers, however, requires constant care and much skill in feeding the machine, and iu order to obviate this defect the filler has been stamped or cut in proper tapering form from a layer of suitable thickness. A fillerof this kind is representedin section in Figure 4, which shows a defective arrangement of the seams or passages for smoke, which, in this case, lead directly against the binder or wrapper, thus rendering it dicult todraw the smoke through the cigar. In fact nearly al1 machine-cigars, as heretofore made, appear tobe extremely liable to question i'u regard to their smoking qualities.

By my improvement I am enabled to produce a lbetter smoking cigar byxsimply cutting out a notch or slit of suitable dimensiois, at the ends ofthe filler or bunch, as represented iligh'gs. 1 and 2, Figure l being a side "iew, showing tl Figure 2 a similar view, showing the cut closed up, thnsgiving the required taperingform, and, at the same time, keeping thegibers parallel with the exteriorsurface of the cigar" all the-openings for the pas- V lthree-quarters of an inch, being made of such size or shape as to take out the proper quantity of material.

My improvement relates most properly to tapering a cigarbunch after it'shas been bound rmly in approximate cylindrical form, from the fact that the relative position of the interior fibers will not become subsequently changed by handling or rolling.

A cigar-filler or bunch, primarily arranged or held by suitable means in approximate cylindrical form, and of uniform size throughout, or nearly so, and tapered by removing a section of its interior ber, in

wedge or other suit-able shape, producing an improved cigar, substantially as described.

SOCRATES SCHOLFIELD.

Witnesses:

D. A. WIGHTMAN, '1.1. SGHOLFIELD.

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